Let me listen to me and not to them.
GERTRUDE STEINAnyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
More Gertrude Stein Quotes
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Too few is as many as too many.
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Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
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For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
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A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
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Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
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It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
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You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.
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As there was never any question there was never any answer.
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Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I’ve got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that’s the answer.
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Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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You are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.
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We are always the same age inside.
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I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
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You’ll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
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I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
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I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
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Art is the pulse of a nation.
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It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
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Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’
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Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
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